Brick-carrier



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A. L. FULTON 8t T. W.'PETERSEN.

BRICK CARRIER.

Patented Sept. 8, 1896 UNITED STATES PATENT FFICE.

ALBERT L. FULTON, 0E SAN MATEO, AND TnEoDoE w. PETEEsEN, OF SAN JosE, CALIFORNIA.

BRICK-CARRIER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 567,464, dated September 8, 1896. Application filed December 11, 1895. Serial No. 571,805. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we,- ALBERT L. FULTON, residing at San Mateo, in the county of San Mateo, and THEODOR W'. PETERSEN, residing at San J os, in the county of Santa Clara, State of California, citizens of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Brick-Carriers; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description thereof.

Our invention relates to a receptacle for transporting bricks from the kiln to their destination, the object being to prevent the rehandling of the brick, with its expense, and the loss of brick resulting from such reliandlings.

A further object is to insure an accurate tally of brick at the point of delivery, which is impossible under present conditions. Our invention is particularly designed to be used in case the brick is manufactured at a distance from its point of delivery and is carried to such point by water in scows. In these cases the brick is loaded into barrows in the. kiln, then wheeled on board the scow and then stacked. At the end of the water-route the brick is again unloaded in barrows and dumped on shore and must then be placed in small carts, by which it is carried to its final destination. There are three principal objections to this method of handling. First, each handling and rehandling is a source of expense, which can be roughly estimated at twenty-five cents per thousand brick; secondly, each handling causes a percentage of breakage, loss of bricks, and numerous worthless bats; thirdly, the tally at the point of delivery (for example, a building under con- -struction) is never accurate, and only approximates the proper score of, say, five hundred brick to a cart-load. This error may be accidental and caused by an inaccurate count at the cart, or it may be intentional. I11 either case there is complaint from the build ing-contractor.

7 Our invention enables the brick-manufacturer to load five hundred brick at the kiln, and deliver five hundred brick at their destination Without intermediate handling and without breakage, thus overcoming all the objections above noted and materially reducing the cost of. brick.

Ourinvention is illustrated in the drawings, in which Figure 1 is a bottom plan. Fig. 2 is a side elevation. Fig. 3 is an end elevation.

A is a box which is designed to lie flat upon a platform-car, or to serve as a d l mping-body upon a Wheel-truck. To adapt it to these two purposes, its bottom boards 1 are supported by a framework composed of longitudinal and transverse beams or sills B and O. The outside beams, or all of them, if preferred, are faced with wearing-strips 2 of band-iron. The frame is preferably strengthened by tierods 3. The general shape of the box is rectangular, and it is composed of boards within and secured to a vertical side and end framing D E. Two of the iron straps which pass under the box are carried up the sides and terminate in four hooks F, two on each side to receive hoisting-chains on a crane which loads or unloads the boxes.

To the center transverse bottom beam C are secured the metallic plates 4. Formed with these plates are curved bearings 5 and projections 6, each having an eye 7. It will be seen that these plates and their accessories are so placed, Fig. 2, that they do not project below the bottom framing, and hence the whole box can lie flat upon the bottom beams. G is an ordinary tail-board which is set in guides Sin the rear of the box-frame. \Ve can, however, hinge one side of the box at the bottom and provide a simple spring-catch or other fastening to secure its upper edge to the end frames. This makes the box as convenient to load at the kiln as an ordinary Wheelbarrow. e may also hinge the tail-board at its upper edge. These modifications we consider as forming parts of our invention. Then the hinged side is used, the band-irons uponthat side which have the hooks F will be separate pieces instead of extending under the box, as shown in Fig. 1.

I11 using this box it is placed upon a fiatcar which is run into the kiln and is there loaded with the proper number of bricks to exactly fill it. That is, its capacity is gaged to, say, five hundred brick, which makes an truck, the bolster of which is provided with.

plates 9, having curved recesses 10, into which the curved bearings 5 fit, and with projecting ears which engage the eyes 6, pins 11 being slipped through said ears and eyes to hold the parts in place. The box has now become a dumping-body, and, with its original load as it left the kiln, is hauled to its destination and dumped, as shown in Fig. 2. The bricks have never been handled since first loaded at the kiln and, the capacity of the box being known, no intermediate tally of brick is required, but only a count of the number of boxes. The empty boxes are shipped back to the kiln. There has been no chance for waste by breakage, because such breakage results from careless and frequent handling, which we entirely avoid, and the industrial value of the invention may be summed up by a restatement of the facts before mentioned, that the cost of brick is decreased, the quality of brick delivered is improved by doing away with the percentage of loss from breakage, while the count of brick is necessarily accurate, because each load is so easily checked by the builder or other consignee.

What we claim is 1. A box or carrier for bricks having a bottom frame secured thereto, a plate secured thereto carrying one member of a hinge-joint said plate and hinge-joint carried thereby being confined above the plane of the edge of said bottom frame.'

2. A box or carrier comprising the bottom and sides, the bottom frame secured to said bottom, the plate secured to said frame carrying one member of a hinge, the end of said member being turned upwardly between the edge of said frame and the said bottom whereby said parts are confined above the plane of the edge of the bottom frame, substantially as described.

3. A combined receptacle and dumpingbody having a bottom and bottomframe, the hinged member carried thereby, the wheel truck, and the corresponding hinge member carried by said truck, and a detachable connection between said members said connection being above the plane of the edge of said bottom frame.

In testimony whereof we have affixed our signatures, in presence of two witnesses, this th day of November, 1895.

ALBERT L. FULTON. THEODOR WV. PETERSEN.

lVitnesses:

L. W. SEELY, GEO. T. KNOX. 

